King Arthur, the mythical ruler of Camelot, may be best known for pulling the magical sword Excalibur from a stone, but there’s another rock formation that bears his name hidden away in the English ...

Some say King Arthur slew a giant there. Others say he knelt in prayer and his knee print indentations are forever etched into the stone. Archaeologists set out to find out what really happened at ...

Two newly discovered stone circles, built about 5,000 years ago in what is now the southwest of England, are the latest to show that Stonehenge was not the only Stone Age circle built in the region.

Arthur’s Stone is “a monument of an entirely different kind to the one that we’d imagined,” says archaeologist Julian Thomas. Courtesy of the University of Manchester According to popular lore, Arthur ...

It's one of Europe's largest Neolithic standing stone complexes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Archaeologists have unearthed ...

Archaeologists excavating a tomb at one of Scotland’s oldest known monuments have discovered two polished, 5,500-year-old stone balls, reports Alison Campsie for the Scotsman. The team made the find ...

A recent study published in the journal Atiqot described a tomb found at the Motza archaeological site in the hills of ...

Archaeologists investigating caves in Malaysia ahead of their flooding for a hydroelectric reservoir have discovered more than a dozen prehistoric burials they think are up to 16,000 years old. The ...

ORKNEY, SCOTLAND—According to a report in The Guardian, a final excavation will be conducted at the Ness of Brodgar this summer. Discovered in 2003, the six-acre site is located on an isthmus in the ...

Archaeologists and students are excavating a 5,000-year-old monument from the Stone Age. The monument, Arthur's Stone, has been the subject of various tales, including one about King Arthur slaying a ...